趁火搶劫
chèn​huǒ​qiǎng​jié

to loot during a fire

  • created sense approved 趁火抢劫/趁火搶劫 · chèn​huǒ​qiǎng​jié · to loot during a fire — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    趁火抢劫 / 趁火搶劫

    chèn​huǒ​qiǎng​jié

    to loot during a fire

    to take advantage of someone's misfortune or a crisis for personal gain; variant form of a common idiom for looting during a fire

    趁 (literal) → 趁 · chèn · while 火 (literal) → 火 · huǒ · fire 抢劫 (literal) → 抢劫/搶劫 · qiǎng​jié · to rob

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense